‘SNL’ Grapples With A Very Irish Conor McGregor Impersonation On Its Final ‘Weekend Update’ Special

Conor McGregor made an appearance on ‘SNL Weekend Update’ on Thursday. Well, someone trying to be Conor McGregor showed up, at least. The show took a shot at the boxing mega matchup between McGregor and Floyd Mayweather by having featured player Alex Moffat play McGregor. Instantly recognizable wearing his famous red turtleneck sweater and white fur with a gold chain combination, the MMA mega star hyped up the match by insisting that kicks would be allowed and just generally insisting that he won’t lose.

The segment made some jokes about McGregor’s Irish heritage while only slightly acknowledged the actual boxing match itself.

There is a fortune to be made to get a proper dialect coach working on US TV. That said us Irish are the only ones who notice how god awful these attempts at our accent is. We are a small country but the variation from Dublin (McGregor) to Cork (Cillian Murphy) which are only 150 miles apart is the same as New York to Alabama in accent. I wouldn’t mind except that guy sounds nothing like ANY Irish accent – at least pick one and get it right!

Even within Dublin there is a huge difference say for example Crumlin where Conor is from and Stillorgan, less than 10 miles away. Literally hundreds of accents to choose from and he gets none of them right